As I write this, it's been 134 days since I asked Dingethal what his positions are on the CRC Scam and repealing Obamacare. He has now ignored me for 4.5 months. As a prospective constituent, he has no right of any kind to ignore me, and I wouldn't be caught dead voting for him as a result.

Like every local democrat candidate, refuses to answer questions concerning their positions, which means they would lie or ignore those they disagree with even after being elected.

Oddly, I have voted for democrats running for congress in the past: for example, during the last cycle, after much internal discussion, I voted for Jon Haugen because he was correct in his opposition (Almost hatred) of the CRC Scam. Herrera always has supported it based on the fact that she's done nothing to stop it.

Ryan, who concentrates most heavily on budget issues, told the
Register his focus right now is on finding common ground in Congress on
taxes and spending. He also thinks it’s crucial that Republicans deliver
on immigration reform and talk about alternatives to the federal health
care law known as Obamacare

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Tuesday that the country doesn’t need to worry about another government shutdown in January when the current stopgap spending bill runs out.

The government shutdown lasted for 16 days in October, after Republicans demanded that President Obama defund his signature healthcare law.

To avoid another shutdown, Ryan said either he and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) would strike a budget deal or Congress would pass a stopgap keeping existing spending levels.

“Either of those two scenarios will prevail, and we will not have a government shutdown,” he said at theWall Street Journalannual CEO Council. “We will keep the government funding at the current level if need be.”

Ryan said that he does not believe there will be any brinkmanship over the debt ceiling in February either. He said Republicans now understand that a shutdown won’t stop ObamaCare because it is a mandatory program, not a discretionary agency budget line item.

In a break with tea party-aligned Senate
conservatives, Republican leader Mitch McConnell announced he will not
vote to block legislation aimed at preventing a partial government
shutdown, even though Democrats intend to rewrite it to restore funds
needed to keep the nation's 3-year-old health care law in existence.

Referring to a bill the House passed
last week, McConnell's spokesman said Monday the Kentucky lawmaker
supports the measure "and will not vote to block it, since it defunds
Obamacare and funds the government without increasing spending by a
penny."

The spokesman, Don Stewart, added that
McConnell will vote against any Democratic attempt to restore funding
for the health care law.

The announcement came shortly after Sen.
Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said that anyone who votes to let the bill advance
toward final passage will be choosing to allow the Democrats to restore
the health care money by majority vote, one they will almost certainly
win. "I think that vote disserves our constituents," he said.

Sen. Rand Paul continued his political makeover Tuesday, endorsing what
amounts to a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants in the
United States as he transforms from 2010 tea party insurgent to
potential 2016 presidential nominee

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